Evil Inside (PPSA02508)

[JJenkx]

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Title

Evil Inside (PPSA02508)

Content version tested

01.000.000

AnyPS5 commit

main 474030e584.

System tested

Linux 7.2.11 (Arch), Ryzen 9 7950X, Radeon RX 6650 XT, RADV Mesa 26.2.6, GCC, Release.

Furthest point

Boot only on main. With a local workaround for the stop below, the title reaches in-game.

What is shown

On main: app.elf does not start.

./app.elf: error while loading shared libraries: PS4sceSystemServiceParamGetInt_plugin.prx: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

With the workaround: an empty shared library under that name, put on LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This is a local test only, not a proposal. The title then renders a first-person interior: a lit hallway with a painting, a lamp and furniture. The run lasted until the scheduled close at 293 s, exit 0, at 55 to 60 FPS, with no driver failure.

Current blocker

Media/Modules/Il2CppUserAssemblies.prx lists PS4sceSystemServiceParamGetInt_plugin.prx among its needed modules (app.Il2CppUserAssemblies.prx.guest.prx.needed.json), but:

• the package does not contain that file. The extraction was checked against every package member.
• the module imports no symbol from it. Its registry only has libSceNet, libSceNetCtl, libSceRtc, libSceSystemService and libkernel.

So the console evidently boots without it. The relinker treats every dependency that is not a guest module as a host library and keeps it as DT_NEEDED, so the Linux loader refuses to start. A simple "no imports from it" rule is not safe: across the 30-odd runtimes I have staged, host libraries such as libkernel.prx, libSceAgcDriver.prx and libSceRtc.prx often appear as dependencies with no matching imports. A correct rule also needs to know which host libraries exist, and the relinker can't know that at relink time when --rpath is $ORIGIN/libs. That is a relinker design question, so I am not proposing a change here.

How it was run

relinker --registry --rpath <build>/core/libs/libs --module-dir Media/Modules --module-dir Media/Plugins eboot.elf app.elf
APS5_PLAYGO_UNLISTED_CHUNKS=installed ./app.elf

Cross every 12 s from 30 s, left stick forward from 210 s. AI-assisted testing and report: yes.

[JJenkx]

#14139 fixes the startup stop above in the relinker. A guest module dependency that no converted module provides, from which the module imports nothing, and that no --rpath directory holds is now left out of the needed libraries on Linux, with a warning.

With it, relinked against the build's libraries and with no stand-in library, the title starts and shows its New Game screen. It runs until the scheduled close at 294 s, exit 0, at 59.94 FPS.

AI-assisted testing and report: yes.

[JJenkx]

Update on #14139 after review. Leaving such a dependency out is now opt-in: relink with --omit-unavailable-dependencies, because a library missing at conversion time could still be supplied at launch. Without the switch the relinker keeps the dependency, prints a note naming the plugin and the switch, and the title still stops at load. With the switch it behaves as in my previous comment.